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  2. Gender of connectors and fasteners - Wikipedia

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    A specific gender changer can be referred to by either the gender of its connectors, or the gender which it is designed to connect to, resulting in a thoroughly ambiguous terminology. Thus a "male gender changer" might have female connectors to mate two male ends, or male connectors to mate two female ends.

  3. Electrical connector - Wikipedia

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    The connection may be removable (as for portable equipment), require a tool for assembly and removal, or serve as a permanent electrical joint between two points. [2] An adapter can be used to join dissimilar connectors. Most electrical connectors have a gender – i.e. the male component, called a plug, connects to the female component, or socket.

  4. D-subminiature - Wikipedia

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    Calling that shield a shell (or D-shell) can be ambiguous, as the term shell is also short for the cable shell, or backshell. D-sub connectors have gender: parts with pin contacts are called male connectors or plugs, while those with socket contacts are called female connectors or sockets. The socket's shield fits tightly inside the plug's shield.

  5. Connector - Wikipedia

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    Plumbing; Electrical connector, a device for joining electrical circuits together (sometimes known as ports, plugs, or interfaces) . Gender of connectors and fasteners; AC power plugs and sockets, devices that allow electrically operated equipment to be connected to the primary alternating current power supply in a building

  6. Gender changer - Wikipedia

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    A gender changer is a hardware device placed between two cable connectors of the same type and gender. An example is a cable connector shell with either two female or two male connectors on it (male-to-male or female-to-female), used to correct the mismatches that result when interconnecting two devices or cables with the same gender of connector.

  7. What Does Non-Binary Mean? Everything You Need to Know ... - AOL

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    "Gender is the mind and sex is the body," explains Dr. Reed. "Gender identity is a social construct of what we think is masculine or feminine and where we think we fit in those categories.

  8. Sex vs. gender: What's the difference? - AOL

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    Gender, on the other hand, is the social and psychological sense one carries of being male, female or any of the multitude of gender identities said to exist outside of the conventional ...

  9. Report: Trump administration considers narrow definition of ...

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    The Trump administration is facing backlash for reportedly considering defining a person’s gender as the one identified at birth based on genitalia. ... The piece goes on to point out that ...